CITY OF HAMILTON
NOTICE OF MOTION to be debated on November 12, 2025. Residents are encouraged to submit their comments, and or experiences to clerk@hamilton.ca and please include your home’s proximity to the landfill i.e. 1k, 2k, 3k etc.
General Issues Committee Date: October 22, 2025
MOVED BY COUNCILLOR B. CLARK……………………………..………………………….
Request for the Closure of the GFL Stoney Creek Regional Facility, 65 Green
Mountain Rd. W., Stoney Creek
WHEREAS, the Minister of Education has recently notified the Hamilton Wentworth
District School Board that the previously approved site for the Nash Neighbourhood
School is “unsuitable” for school children;
WHEREAS, several hundred children live with their families within 3 km of the GFL
landfill are experiencing these offensive odours daily;
WHEREAS, given that the Provincial Government has deemed the Nash
Neighbourhood future school site to be “unsuitable” for students due to the persistent
odour nuisance of almost three years;
WHEREAS, residents are now questioning the suitability of living in their homes, several
hundreds of which are older than the landfill;
WHEREAS, the Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks charged GFL for only
three odour complaints from 2023 out of several thousand over three years; and
WHEREAS, the Ward 9, 5 and 10 Councillors can attest that these Hydrogen Sulfide
odours have continued and were excessively strong this past week.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
That the Mayor and City Council respectfully request that the Premier and his Cabinet
direct the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks, to begin the process to
expedite the closure of the GFL Stoney Creek Regional Facility, 65 Green Mountain Rd.
W., Stoney Creek
Brad Clark Report 